Sir Keir Starmer has ruled out an early general election after a petition calling for a second vote reached two million signatures.

The petition was launched over the weekend and says there should be another vote, just four months after Labour won a landslide, because they have “gone back on their promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election”.

By Monday mid-morning, it had reached two million signatures and was climbing fast.

But the prime minister said he would not be calling another election.

However, he said he was “not surprised” those who did not want to support Labour wanted a second vote.

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Petitions on the government website are considered for debate by MPs after 10,000 signatures. Petitions get a government response after the tally reaches 100,000.

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Over the weekend, MPs considered to be from the right of the Tories or from Reform UK, were urging people on social media to sign the petition.

Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice and Conservative shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith were among those sharing the petition.

Donald Trump aide Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, reposted a link to a post which said it had got 200,000 signatures in a few hours. He wrote: “Wow.”

Musk has previously spoken out against Sir Keir Starmer, calling him “two-tier Keir” over accusations police were treating communities according to their racial background in different ways.